Automatic 3D liver segmentation using morphological operations and graph-cut techniques

Journal of Next Generation Information Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 23-34

  Wan Yussof, Wan Nural Jawahir Hj ^a   Burkhardt, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Graph cut; Morphological operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871313980     PISSN: 20928637     EISSN: 22339388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4156/jnit.vol2.issue3.2     Document Type: Article

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